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Re: [MiNT] OpenSSH: PRNG is not seeded



Am 17.12.2013, 16:05 Uhr, schrieb Vincent Rivière:

On 17/12/2013 15:07, Alan Hourihane wrote:
I've just opened 5 ssh sessions, one of those is compiling and another
for scp and I didn't get any problems.

I tested with ARAnyM, which is very fast.
Inside RAND_poll(), there is some machinery to avoid blocking during more than 10ms. Maybe there is a timing problem between ARAnyM, OpenSSL, /dev/urandom and select()...

Don't know if it's related, but the timer (timeout-stuff etc.) from MiNT is not 100% reliable when runnning on aranym. You can also notice that by sometimes useless values for uptime, usage (/kern/loadavg, CPU (and %) in the XaAES-taskmanager). It has something to do with interrupts ;-)

I'd say try another platform too.

-Helmut

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